Mat Kearney Girl America Lyrics

My girl America is just a youth in this world
Her smile is more precious than the sparkle of pearls
And though her age reads she's just a young girl
The age behind her eyes show the pain that she's swirled
From the hand that's been dealt though it's quiet as kept
The weight was all felt last night as she slept
And as she crept into the dreams of the things of her past
seems to have grown so fast, way beyond her own class
though they're right there with her, her brothers and her sisters
A natural born leader even when her peers diss her
My girl, she's at a crossroads, people praying for her
Some are preying on her magazine ad's, s__, drama, smoking marajuana
Longing for a Father to call her 'daughter'
She's part of a generation longing for reconciliation
And this future that they're facing and this poison that they're tasting
My girl, I know it's love that you're chasing

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My girl America's cryin' when she's lyin' on her bed at night
I can see that she's screamin' when she's dreamin' for freedom
My girl America's dyin' while she's tryin' just to stop this fight
Don't stop believin', my girl America

Verse 2
Boys with hungry eyes have been beating at her door
Telling her that's whats she's for, trying to rob her at her core
Then leave calling her a w____, but still she knows there's more
I know she knows there's more because there's a voice she can't ignore
'Cause it was founded in the foundations, from the day of her creation
In God we trust, engraved in the treasures of her nation
And the void the boys can't fill
With the tippin' of the bottle or the poppin' of the pill
But still most of her friends don't care as they glare
ready to drown the funnel as they frown down the tunnel
As the stumble and they tumble breaking down into rubble
My girl America, stop. Can't you see?
It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be
But how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way
It's for you that I pray with hope for a brighter day
So I say, your deliverance is coming

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Bridge
Faith like a child from your first birth
You left it in the dirt on your worst hurt
And I see each tear and every scar
The hands that have held you where you are
And I can see we've strayed so far
A King born under that morning star
A crown of thorns that was placed to erace
Each tear that touched your face
His palms and sides were pierced with spears
He hung in love just to draw you near
My girl not of this old world
Can't you see this is where we started

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His palms and sides were pierced with spears
He hung in love just to draw you near
My girl not of this old world
Can't you see this is where we started
Where we started, where we started, my girl America